Final guesses on this year’s crop of below-the-line contenders.
Tech Support: Final predictions and analysis for 2011, from 'Hugo' to…'Hugo'
Posted by gerardkennedy · 10:25 am · February 23rd, 2012
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The Long Shot: Don't go to bed angry
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:35 pm · February 22nd, 2012
It seems every critic or blogger has an issue with this year’s Oscar race — so why do I feel oddly content ahead of Sunday’s proceedings?
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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Director
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:45 am · February 22nd, 2012
As was the case last year, this year’s Best Director race pits one foreign first-time nominee against a quartet of more established American auteurs — will the outsider emerge victorious again? We examine who will win, and who should.
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Round-up: Calling for a collaborative performance Oscar
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:00 am · February 22nd, 2012
Also: Clothing ‘Jane Eyre,’ and rejecting the idea of ‘Oscar bait’
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Cannes regains its Oscar foresight
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:43 pm · February 20th, 2012
With “The Tree of Life” the first Cannes Palme d’Or winner in nine years to receive a Best Picture nomination, and “The Artist” set to join the short list of top Oscar champs that debuted on the Croisette, was the French festival last year’s most important Oscar hunting ground?
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Off the Carpet: We won't get another hero
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:44 am · February 20th, 2012
Oscar season heads into the home stretch with no real surprises in sight.
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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Film Editing
Posted by gerardkennedy · 9:25 am · February 20th, 2012
Of all the crafts categories, Best Film Editing always tends to parallel the Best Picture race the most, both in the nominations stage and again during the race for the win. This year’s final five fit squarely into that paradigm.
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'Midnight in Paris,' 'Descendants' take WGA Awards
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:25 pm · February 19th, 2012
Woody Allen took his fifth Best Original Screenplay award from the WGA for “Midnight in Paris,” but with “The Artist” ineligible here, can he beat the Best Picture frontrunner at the Oscars? Meanwhile, “The Descendants” continues to lead the adapted screenplay race.
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'Descendants,' 'Artist' and 'Rango' have an ACE up their sleeve
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:31 pm · February 18th, 2012
The 62nd annual ACE Eddie Awards, recognizing achievement in film editing, were held this evening, and the big surprise came in the drama category. Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants” beat out fellow Best Picture nominees “Hugo,” “Moneyball” and “Hugo,” as well as the slickly cut (by last year’s Oscar winners) “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” for the award.
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Digging into the cinematography field
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:34 pm · February 17th, 2012
This has been bugging me. I’d say the two hardest categories to predict this year are, of all things, Best Costume Design and Best Documentary Feature. Guy worked through the former today, while I worked through the latter yesterday. But Best Cinematography is also something I keep circling back around to.
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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Costume Design
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:10 pm · February 17th, 2012
This year’s Best Costume Design category features the two nomination-leading Best Picture nominees, and three films nominated in no other category — including two well-dressed critical bombs. We consider what will win, and what should.
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84th Oscarcast beginning to take shape
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:31 am · February 17th, 2012
With the Oscar telecast just over a week away, details are slowly starting to emerge about what we could expect. And some of the signs point to a celebration dovetailing with one of the year’s unofficial themes at the multiplex: an homage to classic movies and moviemaking.
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Oscar Talk: Ep. 82 — BAFTA winners, live action and documentary shorts
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:57 am · February 17th, 2012
In this week’s podcast, Kris and Anne reflect on last weekend’s BAFTA Awards and analyze the live action and documentary short nominees, among others.
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Round-up: Uggie finally gets a bone
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:30 am · February 15th, 2012
Also: Mourning ‘Contagion,’ and the decade-later Oscar vote
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ASC awards Emmanuel Lubezki and 'The Tree of Life' best cinematography of 2011
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:57 pm · February 12th, 2012
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) held its annual awards ceremony this evening, honoring achievement in feature film photography.
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Jean Dujardin and Kristen Wiig cut a rug on 'Saturday Night Live'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:33 pm · February 12th, 2012
Fresh off “The Artist”‘s BAFTA dominance earlier today, we might as well post last night’s “Saturday Night Live” riff on Michel Hazanavicius’s film. Hey, when you hit SNL, you’ve really made it.
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'The Artist' cleans up at the BAFTAs
Posted by Guy Lodge · 10:36 am · February 12th, 2012
“The Artist” dominated tonight’s British Academy Awards, winning seven trophies, including Best Film, Director, Actor and Original Screenplay, while its nearest competitor, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” had to be content with wins for Best British Film and Adapted Screenplay.
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MCN's Gurus make their final calls
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:26 am · February 11th, 2012
The Gurus o’ Gold collective of Oscar dorks (yours truly included) at Movie City News have offered up final-ish predictions. I imagine David Poland will give us all an opportunity to change this or that, and certainly, my own picks aren’t final until the Friday or Saturday before the show, but for the most part, these are where the chips lie.
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